1. Dissident
Knowledges
Maria Hlavajova

2. Propositions
 Defy conventional fictions of contemporary
histories
 “new world order”
 Crisis and instability as knowledge

3. Art After Spectatorship?
 Spectatorship as a creative act
 Spectatorship as part of the work
 Social media as material
 Questions of contemporary contexts

4. Critique of Groy’s The Logic
of Equal Aesthetic Rights
 Art in deregulation
 Collapse of ideology
 Young British Artists
 Emerging markets & global financial crisis
 Concept of art in cosmic exile
 Interpretation as the external guarantor of
contemporary art

5. When Platitudes Becomes Form
Christopher Kulendran Thomas&
Tom Trevatt

6. Points
 Sri Lanka vìs-a-vìs England
 Connoisseurial commercialism
 Contemporary art boom
 Context that is not contemporary
 2009
 Unjust peace after 3 decades of civil war

9. Alternative
Histories &
Archives

10. The Form of the Content
Nida Ghouse & Hassan Khan

11. 17 and in AUC
 1990-1995
 American University in Cairo
 2003
 Performance
 4 hours for 14 nights, cigarettes and beers
 2011
 Looking back at the event

12. Memories of University
 Norms and social order
 Class and class formation
 Creation of a specific elite
 Subculture in the university
 Double alienation
 Alienation from the institution
 Alienation from Cairo

13. Sketches for an Alternative
Arab Almanac 1989-2013
Rasha Salti
 US & Arab World
 1991 as end of the 20th century
 2 years after fall of Berlin Wall & Tiananmen Square
Massacre, 10 years after election of Ronald Reagan
(Reagan Doctrine), 12 years after Iranian revolution
 Political into moral
 Quality of life crimes
 Locating the “moral”
 Dystopia
 Bankrupt the political imaginary
 Reflect on the “history” of Arab insurgencies

14. Critical Points
 1973
 Saudi Embargo
 1974
 Palestinian representation in the UN

15. “Violence is the lack of
imagination”

16. A Roma Model/ The
Cosmopolitan Other
Daniel Baker & Ethel Brooks

17. Roma Model
 Roma world view in opposition to the nation state
 Concept of camp & encampment
 Reclaiming & moving forward of being Roma
 Sustainability of 12 million Roma
 Protest camp & archives, occupied camp

18. African? I Guess
Nástio Mosquito

19. Points
 Angola
 1975, after 500 years of occupation
 Caught between Soviet Union, US and their allies
 Representation and identity politics
 Attraction and assault

20. Language, Und
erstanding &
Translations
An Author without a Translator is no Author

21. Global Agoraphilia
Piotr Piotrowski

22. Points
 Critique of globalization
 Global politeia
 Artistic instruments
 Enter and participate in public space
 Shape public life

23. Aernout Mik, Untitled
 Scrutinize building blocks of contemporary art
 Test the limits of of disobedience and non-
compliance
 Conditions of society, moments of revolt and
rebellion

25. Aernout Mik, Untitled, 2013
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